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by aswanson 9y ago
Speaking of which...for an American citizen, is moving coins to dollars taxed at a capital gains rate? How can the government know how much value was accrued?
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by aswanson 9y ago
Exactly, the beauty of the internet is that its taught us that we are not alone. We are legion.
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Probably worse on power consumption as well as price per MIP.
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Infoseek delivered far superior results to altavista in that era.
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by aswanson 9y ago
What makes you think Softbank has the expertise and vision to attract and grow good startup founders? How do you know that the level of capital they have can be efficiently put to work by them in that sector?
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by aswanson 9y ago
Also, one could say the value that Android has added as an open-source alternative to Ios has a value to society in the tens of billions.
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by aswanson 9y ago
You're approximately 2 years older than me. Fast forward to the Commodore Christmas of 1985. Pretty much everyone I knew got a C_64 that year.Things changed quickly.
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Its almost like crowdfunding a record label (remember those?), with the investors thinking they're getting a piece of Madonna or Michael Jackson record sales. It's a hits driven business, the returns are extraordinarily long tail
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by aswanson 9y ago
Again, selection problem. Most VCs can do a raise on their reputation and not have to deal with quarterly reports; most funds are 5-10 year closed. Great VCs wouldnt want to deal with the hassle of going public and reporting losses every ye
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by aswanson 9y ago
The thing that Azure has over AWS, imo, is the integration it has with Visual Studio.
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In the meantime, tuition outpaces inflation 3x, administrator costs escalate, construction projects continue apace on every "higher-education" campus in the country, and financially shielded, tenured professors who have guarante
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by aswanson 9y ago
They've caused billions in damage though,and possibly death.
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by aswanson 9y ago
Isn't Buddhism a philosophy/approach to living rather than a religion?
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by aswanson 9y ago
It's interesting that a country of China's size works without any history of widespread religious belief.
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16s? No Neuralink?
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by aswanson 9y ago
Sad fact, but true. Most companies simply have no need to have been started, and the failure stats bear this out. But as you also state, in aggregate, this process is necessary or time stands still.
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by aswanson 9y ago
Did you take a look at the 6502 assembler in "The Terminator". Maybe you can find the bug that stopped AHnold from killing Sarah Connor.
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by aswanson 9y ago
Sounds you figured out the formula early. Did you get guidance or just saw it yourself?
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by aswanson 9y ago
Agreed. If anything, tax incentives should be offered to businesses that allow telecommuting. From a resource/green perpspective as well as providing a more efficient employment environment, it's a 'good' thing.
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by aswanson 9y ago
It's a massive bet on a local employment market in an increasingly volatile economy. It's not an unalloyed good incentive.
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Sometimes I wonder if it's assholeness or just complete inability to read nonverbal cues.
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by aswanson 9y ago
Yeah that "reloading " process is hard for me as well, which is why I wear headphones. But some people don't respect headphones! They still interrupt with trivial bs, even after you've given them every possible nonverb
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by aswanson 9y ago
You must not live in the us. Every politician here is hyping the threat well beyond proportion to the life loss potential. But humans are irrational and scare prone, so why not exploit the cognitive bug, for votes and profit?
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by aswanson 9y ago
Facebook is a severely flawed product, as flawed as windows 2000, with a similar level of popularity with the unwashed masses. I wonder what its inevitable replacements form will take shape as.
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by aswanson 9y ago
If your premise is true that it will grow because it wishes to spread, then why has it empirically remained constant? Why isnt it more successful every year as it pushes growth?
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by aswanson 9y ago
I'd follow the advice that kcorbitt gives in this thread. Index funds and if you have knowledge of a sector, save 10-20 percent of your investment budget for a specific stock you think will outpace normal growth. Finally, given the com
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by aswanson 9y ago
Just doing the numbers from a stat standpoint, assuming you need to be in the top 2 percent of intelligence to code, there is a latent pool of 42 million developers in China/India waiting for their "go" signal. Best thing to
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by aswanson 9y ago
Given the trends and the fact that it's a low probability event, I'd expect it to stay about where it is, about one death per year, or about as much as a chance as I have of getting killed by a piece of furniture: http:/&#x
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by aswanson 9y ago
Bad driving and cardiac/obesity DO cause more than 10^6 deaths per annum and get no where near the proportionate political/media attention that terrorism does. There are 10x the deaths in auto accidents than the worst terrorist at

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